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NiTnn STATES PATENT Price.

JAMES V. lNASHURNE, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PATENT BUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,398, dated June 6, 1899.

Application tiled October 9, 1897. Serial No. 654,629. (No model.)

To LZZ when@ it may concern: .The shank b' instead of tapering may have Beit known that I, JAMES V. IVASHBURNE, approximately parallel sides and a shoulder a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Waat 3, as shown in Figs. and 6, the reduced terbury, in the county of New Haven and end passing into the perforated center of the 55 5 State of Connecticut, have invented a new disk to the shoulder. The plug or lead filland useful Improvement in Buttons, of which ing c is placed at this reduced end. The rethe following is a specification. duced end in Fig. 5 may be perforated or iin-- My invention relates to the class of buttons perforate. If perforated, I prefer to place employed upon mens and boys clothing, estherein a small disk i, of hard metal, against 6o 1o pecially pants, which buttons are secured which the lead is pressed and the point of the permanently and without thread. tack turned, as hereinafter described.

In carrying out my invention I make use of In the operation of securing the shank to a centrally-perforated' disk and a tubular the button-disk I prefer to lay the buttonshank passing through the perforation and disk upon a die d, the surface of which cor 65 preferably having a iiaring or flanged end, responds generally to the surface of the butforming the base of the button, that rests ton-disk and to the rounded finished head of against the garment, and a plug of suitable the shank, and the plunger d approximately material or soft metal, such as lead, is pressed ts the interior of the shank, and as the plu ninto the end of the tubular shank and eX- ger is forced downward the plug or lead ill- 7o zo pands the same to firmly connect the two ingcspreads the shank,which is ofsoftmetal, parts together. into approximately the form shown, said In applying this button to the garment a shank being thereby securely fastened to the tack with a broad head is passed through the buttondisk- In the tapering form the shank 5 fabric and the point thereof driven into the is enlarged back of the button-disk, as well 75 lead in such a manner as to spread or be as in front thereof, as shown in Figs. Zand 3. clenched to firmly hold the two parts of the The nail c, provided with a suitable head,` button to the fabric. is passed through the fabric fof the garment In the drawings, Figure l is a cross-section to which the button is to be fastened and the of the button-disk, the shank, and the fillingend ofthe button-shank placed against a hard 8o 3o plug. Fig. 2 shows the same parts with the surface, and the nail is driven into the plug button-disk upon a die and the plunger as at or soft-metal Vfilling in the shank, and when the end of the operation of securing the shank the point of the nail comes against the inner to the button-disk. Fig. 3 is a cross-section surface of the metal the same is turned over of the button-disk and shank as secured by and clenched and the fabric is securely fas- 85 the nail to the fabric of a garment. Fig. I is tened between the head of the nail and the a plan view of the button. Fig. 5 is a secflange of the shank, it being practically imtional view showing a modified form of the possible in ordinary use to pull the nail out. button illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 6 is This button is very cheaply made, is coma section of the shank and filling-plug before posed of a minimum number of parts, and can 9o 4o being secured to the button-disk shown in be very securely fastened in place in the gar- Fig. 5. These parts are all of an enlarged or ment, and I prefer to employ lead as a filling magnified size. or plug, because the same is both cheap and The button-disk a is preferably made with effective; but I do notlimit myself in this a recessed and perforated center a. The particular. 9 5 same may be of any desired material. I claim as my invention I) represents a tapering shank or eyelet l. Abutton of the character described conclosed at one end and preferably flanged or sisting of a buttorrdisk having a perforated flaring at the other end. This shank is re depressed center, a shank in the form of an ceived in the perforation of the button-disk, eyelet passing through the perforation in said loo 5o as shown in Fig. l. center and forming enlargements above and The lead filling or plug is represented at c. below the bottom of said center, and a softl metal plug contained within said eyelet at the end next to the bottom of said center, whereby the shank is secured to Said depressed center,

center, a shank in the form of a closed eyelet, I 5 one end of Which is flared and the opposite end passing through the bottom of said depressed center said shank forming enlargements at points above and below said bottom, a filling or plug contained Within said shank and completely filling said enlargements thereof, substantially as described.

Signed by ine this 1st day of October, A. D. 1897.

JAMES V. WASHBURNE.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

